[#VS11] CodeMaid: Excellent extension with the 3 things that you always need

Buenas,

those who know me know that I am a staunch enemy of the mouse. Eye! This does not mean that he is a friend of the touch, but rather than attempt to always work with keyboard shortcuts.

So was that a couple of days ago I installed an extension in Visual Studio called CodeMaid, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I had the opportunity to use it. In fact, one of the keyboard shortcuts for keyboard "stepped" with another that I use and there I realized that had the installed extension.

I’ve been 2 days and the truth is that CodeMaid, I like. I like it because it is free, because it is open source, because it points to simple but effective things and because it works on the latest 4 updates for Visual Studio.

For example, has struck me how well it works the "Cleanup" option. This action is responsible for "clean" our code looking for details as

unused using statements
removes unnecessary whitespace
delete consecutive blank lines
etc.

So I’ve implemented a couple of files that I knew that they had room for improvement, and it has done really well.

Another option that I like is "Reorganize" a class. This option reorganizes the code of a class based on the specifications of StyleCop. If we then execute the analysis of StyleCop, we will see that it takes us much work above.

Note: recalls that in Avanade Spain , is highly probable that you touch pass a review with StyleCop as mandatory for the coding style rule.

Finally, an action which I think is great. The ability to switch between related files. As usual we usually do when edit WPF between the XAML and the XAML.cs